The 35-Minute Billionaire Paradox
Envisage a world where a "decimal point" is the only thing standing between you and a private island. For 695 Bithumb users, that reality smashed down like a thunder bolt when a promotional "Random Box" planned to keep pocket change ($1.37) arrived packed with 2,000 BTC.
For exactly 30 minutes, these accidental whales held 3% of the world's supply, dispatching the BTC price into a localized 17% fall under a natural pull of gravity as "winners" crambled to liquidate their digital lottery tickets. The dream dissolved faster than a market order: the exchange pressed the kill switch, recovering back 99.7% of the phantom wealth. It wasn't a hack; it was a human error that precisely turned a ledger into a legend.
Wealth is often a game of seconds. On Bithumb, those seconds were worth billions.
Key Assets Involved: $BTC , $KRW